In reply to: off the front page posted by olson
He was born 7 months after the Rockne plane crash and died last November.
see linked article
Green Bay HC & GM Bart Starr sent assistant coach Zeke Bratkowski to scout Montana.
Per the attached article, Bratkowski worked out Montana -even catching his passes as he tested Joe's arm strengh
Zeke came away impressed & told Starr to draft Montana...but as Starr admitted -he blew it & passed on Joe
more trivia
Zeke Bratkowski was in the very first graduating class ever at Danville Ill. Schlarman.....
In addition to finishing in the top 10 in passing all 3 years of varsity play at Georgia(mentioned in my earlier post), Bratkowski led the Nation in punting in 1953 (42.6 average) -Bart Starr of Alabama finished 2nd (41.4)
Look at the top 5 picks of the draft. One of these things isn't like the other.
When Danville Schlarman star Zeke Bratkowski went on his recruiting visit to Georgia, there weren't many football players from the State of Illinois on the Georgia team.
But Zeke was shown around campus by one of the few such players - a former Illinois All State HB named Jack McHugh from Chicago St Rita -who had transferred to Georgia from Notre Dame (ND 1947 Frosh recruiting class).
Bio on McHugh linked
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